Merchandise ticket printer



Suventor His Gttorneg 2 Shee ts-Sheet 1 Arthur C. Kil-:hner By April 15, 1941. A, c. KIRSHNER MERCHANDISE TICKET PRINTER Original Filed Feb. l, 1936 April 15, A1941.

A. C. KIRSHNER- HERCHANDISE TICKET PRINTER Original Filed Feb. l, 1956 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Snventor Arthur C. Kirshner Hin Gttorneg Patented pr. 1.5, 1941 MERCHANDISE TICKET PRINTER Arthur C. Kirshner, Dayton, Ohio, assigner to The National Cash Register Company,

Dayton,

Ohio, a corporation of Maryland Original application February 1, 1936, Serial No. 61,921. Divided and this application June 14, 1937, Serial No. 148,022

3 Claims.

This invention relates to a simple sales record machine which is especially adapted for use in connection with systems employing pin tickets or similar price tags usually attached to the merchandise, and is a division of the application for United States Letters Patent of Arthur C. Kirshner, Serial No. 61,921, filed February 1, 1936, now Patent No. 2,165,660, issued January 18, 1938.

It is an object of this invention to provide an inexpensive and eicient sales record machine which requires no electric motor, no receipt or detail paper, and no sales books.

An additional object is to provide a sales record machine which en-tirely eliminates `the possibility of error where it is usually necessary for the clerk to read the price from the price ticket on the merchandise and Write it on the sales book or set it up on the keys of a register.

A further object is .to provide a machine which uses the original price ticket placed on the merchandise in the marking room as a medium for the control of the cash.

A still further object is to provide a machine which compels the clerk to detach a stub from the price ticket, which is used for the purpose of keeping a stock control or perpetual inventory.

It is also an object of this invention to provide a new and novel machine having a common operating means adapted to operate the selected one of a plurality of printing and severing mechanisms under the control of an inserted price ticket.

Another object is to provide a sales record machine adapted to have inserted therein a price ticket, print a consecutive number on two portions of said ticket, print or emboss upon the main body of said ticket the word Paid, sever a portion of said ticket from the main body thereof, and simultaneously therewith deposit the severed portion of said ticket in a receptacle provided for that purpose.

A further object is to provide a simple and inexpensive type of sales record machine adapted to have inserted therein a price ticket, print a consecutive number on two portions 0f said ticket, print or emboss upon lthe main body of said ticket the Word Pad, sever a portion of said ticket from the main body thereof, deposit the severed portion of said ticket in anyone of a plurality of receptacles provided for the purpose of classifyinvention includes certain novel features of construction -and combinations of parts, the essential elements of which :are set forth in appended claims and a preferred form or embodiment of which is hereinafter described with reference to the drawings which accompany and form a part of this specification.

Of said drawings:

Fig. 1 is a facsimile of the price ticket secured to a piece of merchandise.

Fig. 2 is a front elevation, partly broken away, of one form of the invention provided with four sets of printing and severing mechanisms and a like number of cash drawers.

Fig. 3 is a facsimile of the back of the main body of the ticket, after the stub has been severed therefrom, showing `the consecutive number and the Word Paid prin-ted thereon.

Fig. 4 is a facsimile of the back of the severed portion of the ticket.

Fig. 5 is a detail side view, in enlarged scale, of the consecutive number printing mechanism.

Fig. 6 is a vertical cross sectional View of the left side of the machine, shown in Fig. 2.

Fig. 'l is a front view of a portion of the consecutive number printing mechanism employed in the form of the invention illustrated in Figs. 2 and 6.

Fig. 8 is a plan View, in enlarged scale, of the printing mechanism.

Fig. 9 is a front elevation of a modified form of the invention, showing a machine provided with four sets of printing and severing mechanism-s, all of which are actua-ted by a com-mon operating means.

Fig. 10 is a vertical sectional view of the left side of the machine, shown in Fig. 9.

Fig. 11 is a detail rear View of two of the sets of printing and severing mechanisms together with the common operating means therefor, embodied in the machine disclosed in Fig. 9.

General description Described in general terms, the present invention comprises a simple and inexpensive type of machine for keeping sales records, and is especially designed to have inserted therein the price ticket which is taken from the merchandise by the clerk and to have printed von that ticket the consecutive number of the sale and also the word Paid This machine uses the original price ticketplaced on the merchandise in the marking room as a medium for the control of the cash and as a perpetual inventory. 'Ihe price ticket has formed thereto a stub portion which is adapted to be severed from vthe main body thereof by lthe machine and dropped into a locked receptacle. The price of merchandisai stock number, and other data desired by thestore are preprinted on both the main body of the ticket and on the stub portion thereof.

When recording a sale, the salesperson inserts the price ticket into the machine and manually operates the machine. When the machine is thus operated, mechanism provided therein prints on the back side of both the main body of the price ticket `and on the stub portion thereof a consecutive number, prints or impresses on the back side of the main body of the ticket the word Paid and any desirable identifying symbol, such as a clerks number, and finally severs the stub portion of the ticket from the main body thereof and deposits it in a locked receptacle provided for that purpose.

The main body of the price ticket remains attached to .the merchandise rand is used by the customer as a receipt. In the event the merchandise is returned for `any reason, the word Paid on 'the price ticket indicates that the sale was properly recorded and the consecutive number thereon enables checking it upy with the stub portion thereof which has been retained by the store for its record.

At the end of any specified period of time, the receptacle may be unlocked and the stub portions of the price tickets removed therefrom for the purpose of obtaining the amount of cash for which the clerk is responsible. These stubs may then also be used for inventory Purposes. The key to the locked receptacle is usually in the possession of the manager vor any other authorized person. There is also provided in thismachine especially designed means for preventing operation of the machine until it isv released by the insertion of a price ticket.

Two methods of embodying .the invention are disclosed herein, the preferred form being shown generally in Fig. 2 wherein a separate actuating means is provided for each printing and severing unit. There may be a number of these unit mechanisms associated together in the same cabinet, four being the number selected for this particular disclosure.

A modified form of the invention is shown in Fig. 9 and consists of a single operating means for a number of printing and severing units, pairs of which are associated with 4a common drawer. The purpose of the pairing of printing vand severing units is to provide for segregating cash .and credit transactions entered by the same clerk.

Detailed description A simple and inexpensive sales record machine, such as that disclosed in Figs. 2 and 5 to 8, combines a plurality of ticket printing and severing units with a like number of ticket receptacles and a plurality of cash drawers. Such a machine affords a number of classifications of the inserted price tickets as well as furnishing separate cash drawers for each classication.

The form of invention as shown in Figs. 2 and 5 to 8 comprises a casing or cabinet |55, having formed in the front side thereof four slots, |46, |47, |48, and |49, which are provided for receiving the inserted price tickets. The classification the severed portion of the price ticket is to receive is, of course, determined by whichever one of the slots the ticket is inserted into, as will be later described in detail.

Mounted within the casing |55 are four units, each unit comprising a printing and severing mechanism, one unit being associated with each of the slots |45 to I 49 inclusive.

The casing |45 has mounted therein four blocks |50, |5|, |52, and |53 (Figs. 6 and 7), one for each unit, each block carrying the upper portion of the printing and severing mechanism comprising its particular unit.

The casing |55 is secured to two transversely extending frames |55 and |55 (Fig. 6) secured to the top of a base |55. Mounted between and secured to the frames |54 and |55 is an auxiliary frame |51 bent to form a plurality of U-shaped sections to provide a support for the lower portion of the printing and severing mechanism of each of the various units.

Price tickets One type of price ticket which may be used in connection with the ypresent invention is illustratedin Fig. 1. This ticket comprises a main body 55 (Fig. 3) having attached thereto a stub portion 5| (Fig. 4) The price ticket has printed thereon, in duplicate, once on the main body 5|] and once on the stub portion 5|, the price of the merchandise, the serial number, and any other desired data. The main body 55 of the price ticket is fastened to the merchandise 49 in the usual manner. When recording a transaction on the present machine the stub portion 5| oi' the price ticket is severed from the main body thereof and retained in the machine, as will be hereinafter described. The main body 5l] of the price ticket remains on the merchandise and serves as the customers receipt.

Printing mechanism The machine is provided with two sets of consecutive number printing wheels 52 and 53 (Figs. 5, 6, and 8) which are adapted to print on the back of the inserted price ticket a consecutive number in duplicate. The wheels 52 print on the main body 5U of the, ticket, while the Wheels 53 print on the stub portion thereof. The purpose of the consecutive number is to enable the identification of both the main body 55 and the stub portion 5| of the ticket, at any future time.

The wheels 52 andv 53 are mounted upon shafts 55` and 55, respectively, Iboth of which are mounted in the U-.shaped sections of the auxiliary frame |57, shown in Figs. 6 and '7. The consecutive number printing wheels are of the multiple tined deep notch transfer type, well known in the art and described in many patents, one of which is the patent to Thomas Carney, No. 876,295, dated' January '7, 1908. A detailed description thereof will not be given here.

Both sets of wheels, 52 and 53, are advanced one step each time the machine is operated. To insure the simultaneous advancing of both sets of wheels 52 and 53 at the same time, a common actuating means therefor is provided.

It might be well to state at this point that there is a printing unit comprising both sets of wheels, 52 and sa, for each of the U-sh'aped sections of the auxiliary frame |51. In the illustrated machine in, Figs. 2, 6, and 7, there are four such U-shaped sections,` and therefore there are four printing units or sets of wheels 52 and 53. i

The actuating means for advancing both sets of wheels 52 and 53 at the same time comprises a shouldered plunger 52y (Figs. 5 and 6) mounted 1n a counterbored opening in the frame |5|. It is to be understood that there is a plunger 62 associatedwith each of the other frames |50 |52, and |53, but sin-ce all of the units are iden: tical, that unit and the operating mechanism associated with the second section from the left will be described.

When the frame I is moved downwardly during an operation of the machine in a manner to be later described, a hammer pin 64 carried by the block strikes the plunger 62 and moves it downwardly. The plunger 62 rests on a shoulder 65 of an arm 66 connected by a link 61 (Fig. 7) to a yoke 68 mounted on the shaft 55, while the yoke 68 is connected by a link 69 to a yoke 10 mounted on the shaft 54. The yoke 68 carries a multi-timed pawl 1| for actuating the printing wheels 53 and the yoke 10 carries amulti-tined pawl 12 for actuating the printing wheels 52. A spring 13 fast at one end to the yoke 10 and at its opposite end to the shaft 55 constantly tends to rock, through the links 69 and 61, the yokes 10 and 68 and the arm 66 counterclockwise.

It ris thus apparent that when the plunger 62 is moved downwardly during an operation of the machine as above described, the lower end thereof rocks the arm 66 and, through the links 61 and 68, the yokes 68 and 10 clockwise,.against the action of the spring 13, to advance the Wheels 53 and 52 simultaneously one step. The spring 13 acts to return the parts to their normal position.

The blocks |50, |5|, |52, and |53 carry printing blocks or pads 80 and 8| for taking imprints from the wheels 52 and 53, respectively, of their associated printing units.

Each of the blocks |50, |5|, |52, and |53 also :if

carries a type bar 82 having raised characters which coact with a die 83 (Fig. 8) which, when the machine is operated, embosses the word Paid upon the main body 50 of the inserted ticket. cured to the U-shaped sections of the auxiliary frame |51.

Any suitable type of ink ribbon device may be used in connection with the type wheels 52 and 53 and the printing pads 80 and 8| for printing upon the back of the insertable price ticket, in duplicate, a consecutive number.

For the purpose of guiding and properly alining the price ticket as it is inserted in the machine there is provided a chute 88 (Figs. 5 and 6) secured to the U-shaped sections of the auxiliary frame |51.

The machine is provided with severing mechanism which, immediately following the printing of the consecutive number and the embossing of the word Paid on the inserted price ticket, severs the stub portion 5| from the main body 50 thereof. When the stub 5| is thus severed from the main body of the ticket a guide plate |04 (Fig.V 5), formed integral with and projecting downwardly from the chute 88, guides the severed stub so that it will drop into a receptacle (Fig. 6) formed inside the machine cabinet below each of the printing units.

The severing mechanism comprises a stationary knife blade |2| (Fig. 5) formed on the bar 81 and a knife blade 86 carried by the block |5|. When the block is lowered during an operation of the machine, the knife blade 86 coacts with the knife blade |2| to sever the stub portion 5| from the main body of the inserted price ticket.

As above stated, the printing and severing mechanism of each of the four units is identically the same.

therefore separate operating means is provided for each unit. The operating means comprises The die 83 is mounted in a bar 81 se- 2';

four push buttons' |58, |58, |60, and |6| (Figs. 2 and 7), one for each unit. The buttons |58 to |6| inclusive are each fastened to the upper end of one of a plurality of plungers |62, |63, |64, and |65, respectively, loosely mounted in openings provided in the upper side of the casing or cabinet |45. A U-shaped frame |66 (Figs. 6 and '1), secured at both ends to the frames |54 and |55, is provided with bearings |61, only one of which is shown, through which the plungers |62 to |65 slide. Each one of the plungers is provided with a coil spring |68, which normally maintains it in its elevated position. Each one of the plungers carries naar its lower end a pin |66 which normally bears against the under side of the bearing |61 and thereby limits the upward movement of the plunger by the spring |68.

Each of the blocks |50 to |53 inclusive (Fig, 6) is provided with an opening |10 to accommodate a driving pawl |1|. Each of these pawls is pivoted at |12 to its respective block and is held out of the path of movement of the plunger associated with that unit by a spring |13. Whenever a ticket is inserted into any one of the slots |46 to |48 inclusive (Fig. 2) the innermost edge of said ticket strikes the lower end of the pawl |1| associated with that unit and rocks said pawl counter-clockwise to position its upper end in the path of movement of its associated plunger. When the operator. depresses the push button and plunger for that particular unit, the driving connection established by the position of the pawl in the path of movement of the plunger by the insertion of the price ticket causes the pawl |1| and its associated blocks to be moved downwardly with said plunger to perform the functions of the machine.

To insure a uniform movement of the block and to properly aline the same as it is lowered in the manner above described, a parallel movement ydevice (Fig, 6) is provided between the blocks and the guide supports provided by the frame |51 for each unit. Inasmuch as this arrangement is the same for these units, a description of one unit will suffice for all.

The block carrying the upper portion of the printing and severing mechanism, and the stationary support provided by the bent or auxiliary frame |51 for carrying the lower portion of said mechanism, are connected together on one side by two levers and |8| and on the opposite side by two levers |82 and |83. The levers of each pair are pivoted together at |84. The forward ends of the lever |80 and |83 are pivoted at |85 to the block, while the forward ends of the levers |8| and |82 are pivoted at |86 to the side supports provided by the auxiliary frame |51. The rear ends of the levers |8| and |82 are connected together by a rod |81 extending through an elongated slot |88 formed in the block, while the rear ends of the levers |80 and |83 are connected together by a rod |89 extending through a pair of slots |90 formed in both of the side supports provided for that unit by the auxiliary frame |51. It will be obvious that the slots |88 and |90 will permit the block 5| to move toward and away from the record material, but remaining parallel thereto, levers |80 to |83 inclusive performing the functions of controlling the uniform movement of the block and maintaining it in proper alinement.

After the operation of the machine is completed, the coil spring |68 returns the associated push button and plunger to their normal elevated positions. Corresponding blocks and levers 80 to |83 inclusive are returned to their normal pois secured to the lefthand end of the block, and the opposite end is fastened to the rod |81.

Stub receptacles The lower portion of the casing is provided with four separate compartments or receptacles |28, one of said receptacles being associated with each one of the four units for receiving the severed stub portions i of the price ticket inserted in each one of their respective units.

The casing is provided on its front side with four doors |97, lila, 99, and Zliil, one for each of the above mentioned receptacles, for gaining access to the receptacles. The doors |91 to 200 inclusive are each equipped with locks 20|, 202, 253, and 2M, respectively, for preventing any unauthorized person from gaining access to the receptacle.

Cash drawer mechanism Enclosed in the base |58 (Fig. 2) are four cash drawers 2li?, 2H, 2|2,and 2|3, one of Which drawers is associated with each unit. Whenever any one of the units is operated in the manner above described, the cash drawer associated with said unit is operated to open. Mechanism for operating and opening the cash drawers will now be described.

Associated with the cash drawers (Fig. 6) are a plurality of latches 2M (only two of which are shown), one for each cash drawer. 'I'he frame |55 and the base ld are provided with openings 2I5 and 215 respectively for each of the latches 2| ll, said latches being adapted to slide therein. Each latch 2M is retained in its latched position by a spring 2H, one end of which is fast to the upper end of the latch and the opposite end is secured to the frame H55. Secured to the rear side of each cash drawer is a drawer keeper 2|8, the rear end of which is shaped in the form of a hook to engage the lower end of its associated latch 2id, thereby holding its respective cash drawer in its closed position against the action of an expulsion spring iig, fast to the rear side of the base |53.

Secured to the frame |55 are a plurality of brackets 222 (only one of which is shown), one for each cash drawer. Pivoted to each one of these brackets 222 is a lever 220 (only one of which is shown) for releasing the latches 2|4. When such latches are released, the cash drawers are moved to their open positions by means of the springs 2li?. The rear end of each lever 220 is located directly beneath a stud 22| carried by each of the latches 2M, while the forward end of each'lever 22% is connected to the block of its associated unit by a link 223. It is, therefore, obvious that whenever any one of the push buttons |58 to iti is operated and the block associated therewith is lowered, the lever 220, through the link 223, is rocked counter-clockwise. Such counter-clockwise movement of the lever 22s, through the rear end of such leverr coacti-ng with the stud 22| carried by its associated latch 2id, raises the latch 2id, permitting the cash drawer to be moved to its open position by its associated expulsionspring 2|S. The drawers are manually returned to their normal closed position in the usual manner.

A brief description of the operation of this machine will now be given. As previously stated, this machine is capable of providing four different classifications of the severed portions 5| of the insertable price ticket. Such classification consists of segregating the severed portion of the ticket according to whichever one of the slots |46 to |49 inclusive the tickets are inserted into.

The insertion of a ticket into any one of the above mentioned slots positions the associated pawl |1| for that particular unit in the path of its corresponding plunger. Depression of the push button corresponding to the unit into which the ticket has been inserted moves its associated plunger downwardly to contact the pawl Ill and move said pawl and its associated block down.. wardly to advance the consecutive number printing wheels one step, to print the consecutive number in duplicate on the back of said insertable ticket, to emboss the word Paid on the main body of the ticket, to sever the stub p01'- tion from the main body of the ticket, and to deposit it in the receptacle associated therewith, which is provided for that purpose. At the same time, through the mechanism above described. the cash drawer associated with the particular unit operated is released.

A modified form of the invention is disclosed in Figs. 9, 10, and 11. The machine thus illustrated is adapted not only to segregate the severed stub portions of the inserted price tickets according to the salesperson, but also to segregate such stubs of each salesperson according to Cash and Charge transactions. Therefore only two cash drawers are provided, one for each salesperson operating the machine. More cash drawers may be provided when necessary, two only being shown for the purpose of illustrating this particular modified form of the invention. Each time a price ticket is inserted in the machine and the machine operated, the cash drawer corresponding to the salesperson performing such operation is released regardless of whether the transaction is Cash or Charge.

This machine is similar to the machine disclosed in Figs, 1 to 8 inclusive, heretofore described, in that the casing thereof is provided with four slots into which the price tickets may be inserted, the classification of the inserted ticket being determined by whichever one of the slots it is inserted into. Likewise a separate unit comprising a printing and severing mechanism like that illustrated and described above, in connection with the preferred form of the invention, is provided in connection with each one of said slots. Also there are provided four receptacles for retaining the severed portion of the inserted price ticket, one of said receptacles being associated with each unit. The receptacles are each provided with a locked door for gaining access thereto. It is therefore thought unnecessary to give a further description of such mechanism herein.

In this modied form of the invention, however, there is provided a common operating means for all four of said units. The machine is constructed, however, so that only the unit associated with the slot into which a. ticket is inserted is operated. This operating mechanism will now be described in detail.

Referring now to Figs. 9, l0, and 11, a push button 230, fast on the upper end of a plunger 23| slidably mounted in a bearing 232 carried by a U-shaped frame 233, is provided for operating the machine. The U-shaped frame 233 is like the frame |66 heretofore described. A coil spring 2,34 (Fig. 9), wound around the plunger 23|', normally maintains the plunger in its elevated position. A pin 235 (Fig. 10) carried by the lower end of the plunger 23| normally bears against the under side of the bearings 232 and thus limits the extent of upward movement given to the plunger by the spring 234.

Whenever the push button 239 and the plunger 23| are manually depressed during an operation of the machine, the lower end of the plunger 23| strikes the end of an arm 236 and rocks it clockwise. The arm 23B is secured to a shaft 231 journaled at each end in bearings 238 (only one of which is shown) carried by the frame 233. Also fast on the shaft 231 are four driving arms 239 (Figs. 9 and 10) only two of which are shown, one of said arms being provided for operating each ticket printing and severing unit. Thus, when the arm 238 is rocked clockwise in the manner above described, the shaft 231 and the arm 239 are rocked clockwise therewith against the action of a torsion spring 240 wound around the shaft 231, one end of which spring is fast to the frame 233 and the opposite end to the lower edge of the arm 236.

Each of the four ticket printing and severing units is provided with a driving pawl 24|. The pawls 24| are like the pawls |1| heretofore described, both in construction and in operation. The pawls 24| are normally maintained in an ineffective position by spring 242 (only one of which is shown) holding the upper ends of such pawls out of the path of movement of the arms 239.

Whenever a ticket is inserted into any one of the slots associated with the various units, the innermost edge of the ticket strikes the lower end of the pawl 24| associated with said unit and rocks said pawl counter-clockwise against the action of the spring 242 to position the upper end thereof in the path of its corresponding arm 239. With the pawl 24| thus moved to its effective position, the arm 239 corresponding thereto, during its counter-clockwise movement, will strike the upper end of said pawl and move it downwardly to actuate said unit. The function of this type of unit has been previously described herein and therefore will not be further discussed here.

As previously stated, the present machine is provided with only two cash drawers, each drawer being associated with two of the ticket printing and severing units. Each cash drawer is operated when either of its associated units is operated. The means for releasing the cash drawers is of the same construction as that illustrated in Fig. 6 and heretofore described, except that each cash drawer latch carries a pin 243 which is adapted to be actuated by either one of the latch operating levers 220 associated with the two units corresponding to said drawer. It is therefore thought unnecessary to give a further detailed description of this mechanism. However, the differences in construction will now be described.

Referring to Figs. 10 and 11, each unit is provided with a train of mechanism identical with that shown in Fig. 6 and includes a block |5|, link 223, and latch operating lever 22D. By referring to Fig. 11 it will be seen that the links 223 are arranged side by side and the latch 2|6 for each cash drawer is located between the links 223. The latch 2|6 is provided with a long pin 243 which protrudes from each side of the latch 2| 6 and into the path of the latch lever 220.

Thus, the insertion of a ticket into either one of the slots A or into either one of the slots B will condition the corresponding unit for operation by the push button 230. 'Ihe operation of the push button 230, through the pawl 24|, block |5I, link 223, and lever 220, will raise the latch 2|6 to release the desired one of the cash drawers.

Since the operation of this machine is the same as that given in connection with the preferred form of this application except that a common operating means is here provided for all of the units, no detailed description thereof is thought necessary.

While the mechanisms herein shown and described are admirably adapted to fulfill the objects primarily stated, it is to be understood that it is not intended to conne the invention to the forms of embodiment herein disclosed, for it is susceptible of embodiment in various other forms, all coming within the scope of the claims which follow.

What is claimed is:

l. In a machine adapted to receive insertab-le tickets, having a plurality of units each of which includes mechanism for printing in duplicate on an insertable ticket and severing a stub portion from the main body of the ticket, and a receptacle associated with each unit into which are deposited the severed portions of the tickets, the combination of a plurality of cash drawers, each one of said drawers being associated with two of said units; a latch for each drawer keeping it normally in closed position; common operating means for said units; a member associated with each unit movable to render the common operating means effective to operate the unit associated therewith; means for unlatching one of said cash drawers when either one of its associated units is operated; and means for unlatching the other cash drawers when either one of the units associated with such drawer is operated.

2. In a machine of the class described, the combination of a plurality of paired registering units; a single operating means for the registering units normally ineffective; means to condition selected registering units so that operating of the operating means actuates them; a drawer associated with each pair of registering units; a latch for each drawer; and coexisting a1- ternative means whereby operation of either one of a pair of registering units will unlatch the associated drawer.

3. In a machine adapted to receive insertable tickets, to print in duplicate on said tickets, and to sever stub portions therefrom, and having a receptacle into which said severed portions of the tickets are deposited, the combination of a cash drawer; a latch normally locking the drawer in closed position; a latch operating means; a ticket chute; a registering and ticket severing means the operation of which operates the latch operating means; a lever mounted on the registering and severing means, said lever being resiliently held so as to be moved by the insertion of a ticket into the ticket chute; and a manipulative means to actuate the registering and severing mechanism, said manipulative means being effectively operable only when the lever is moved by inserting a ticket in the chute.

ARTHUR C. KIRSHNER. 

